Plutonium

The field of aeronautics has been subject to a whirlwind of change, starting from the initial days of taking to the sky in clumsy contraptions of wood and canvas to the modern jetliners that ferry millions of people around the globe. Over the past few decades, however, there have been vast efforts to create aeroplanes that remove the humans from the equation called UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). UAVs are powered aerial vehicles that do not carry human operators. They use aerodynamic forces to…

produced during nuclear fission to heat the water. A nuclear fission is when the uranium atoms split into two smaller atoms, giving off a large amount of heat. According to the ME Mechanical team (2016), the nuclear power plants use uranium and plutonium as a source of fuel. These atoms are radioactive in nature, but when they…

likely to ever occur again. Silkwood was a member of the bargaining committee within her union. She testified before the Atomic Energy Commission that she had found serious violations among which were spills, leaks, faulty fuel rods and missing plutonium. On her way to meet a New York Times reporter, her car went off the road and she was killed. They found Quaaludes in her blood stream and the police decided she had fallen asleep at the wheel, despite the skid marks on the road and…

North Korea, under the rule of the Kim Dynasty since the early 1950 's, is now one of the world 's deadliest and largest nuclear powers. Since given the dictatorship in 2011 it is said that Kim Jong Un is "the youngest, most inexperienced, and therefore most unpredictable leader thus far of this state of insanity" (Avenger). Kim Jong or as the nation calls him Supreme Leader is in control of all of North Korea 's nuclear inventory. North Korea 's nuclear arsenal is among the scariest, even…

Almost twenty American naval vessels, eight large battleships and over three hundred airplanes were destroyed by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. That devastating day lead the United states into joining the World War two. The nuclear research quickly began after the war took place. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Manhattan project after gathering information that the Germans attempted to build an atomic bomb. Unsatisfied, the U.S took an even greater look into their research, in…

From 1939 to 1945 World War Two (WW2) ravaged the world, causing horrendous amounts of death and destruction. During the tail-end of the war, after Germany’s surrender, war still raged on in the Pacific; more specifically on the islands of Japan, which eventually lead up to the United States (U.S.) dropping two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although the dropping of the atomic bombs in Japan caused inconceivable amounts of terror and suffering for years to come…

Numerous threats of bombings are purported by Kim Jong Un leave many people wondering how scared they should really be. North Korea is capable of enriching uranium, and also has weapons grade plutonium at their disposal, and is also thought to have access to chemical and biological weapons. Since it is not a part of any agreement that would prevent it from developing all these weapons except the biological weapons, they can technically continue…

The world needs a sustainable energy source, there are no two ways about it. In my opinion, with the current infrastructure of the United States, the only way the US can generate enough energy effectively and efficiently is by combining nuclear, hydroelectric, solar, wind, and biofuels. Nuclear can generate a solid baseline in which solar can add on to during the day when energy usage is near its highest. The rest of the sources can add onto what is being produced by nuclear and can then match…

During an era when women were not known to attend college, let alone, play a major influential role in science, Marie Curie did just that. Born Marie Sklodowska in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, Marie is best known for discovering the elements radium and polonium, and her study of radioactivity, which led to advances in the treatment of cancer and the development of nuclear power; both of which are still used today. Her work on radioactivity led to her being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and…

Introduction – As the human population is growing, there is the need to produce more energy to fill everybody’s needs and also try to keep the environment undestroyed and stop the climate change. One of the solutions to this problem was found in the science of atomic radiation, atomic change and nuclear fission, which was developed between 1895 to 1945, where most of the of the development happened in the last six years of that period and the focus at the time was at the atomic bombs ("History…